Tracing Technological Development Trajectories: A Genetic Knowledge Persistence-Based Main Path Approach

The aim of this paper is to propose a new method to identify main paths in a technological domain using patent citations. Previous approaches for using main path analysis have greatly improved our understanding of actual technological trajectories but nonetheless have some limitations. They have hig...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Park, Hyunseok, Magee, Christopher L
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Public Library of Science 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/110026
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5316-8358